{"id":4815,"date":"2023-06-11T20:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T01:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nazareneblogs.org\/pastorscott\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2023-06-11T20:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T01:32:50","slug":"devotional-on-2-kings-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/devotional-on-2-kings-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Devotional on 2 Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Tr2QQmef7CI\/XoUHztlg9jI\/AAAAAAABEd4\/OsngA3ZhZZwNy7uKaPJCdyHTfClrPfIOACKgBGAsYHg\/s1600\/IMG_6051.JPG\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"size-large\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 &#8211; Badlands National Park, SD<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWhen the church isn\u2019t at church<br \/>\n2Kings 17: They don&#8217;t really worship God.<br \/>\nAfter defeating and exiling Israel the king of Assyria relocates other people from under his rule to the now empty land. At first, these settlers ignore Jehovah God, but it becomes apparent that the Almighty is not going to allow that. A priest is brought back to teach them how to worship God. However, they only add worshiping the God of the exiled people to their list of gods to worship. In fact, we\u2019re told, they don&#8217;t really worship God at all. How do we know that? The writer proves his point by saying that they don&#8217;t take seriously what God says about how to live and what to believe. Apparently, just doing the right things in a worship service isn&#8217;t sufficient so far as God is concerned. He\u2019s just as interested in how people live, how they relate to one another, and what they really believe as he is with whether or not they can put on a proper worship service. What I do outside of church is just as important to God as what I do inside the church.<br \/>\nTake Away: Worship is defined as much by what I do outside the church as what I do inside it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the church isn\u2019t at church 2Kings 17: They don&#8217;t really worship God. After defeating and exiling Israel the king of Assyria relocates other people from under his rule to the now empty land. At first, these settlers ignore Jehovah God, but it becomes apparent that the Almighty is not going to allow that. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1479,7],"tags":[117,342,772,1169],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4815"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14496,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4815\/revisions\/14496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/pastorscott\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}